LazyKit 2.0

You want to add pod 'LazyKit', '~> 2.0' similar to the following to your Podfile:

target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'LazyKit', '~> 2.0'
end

Then run a pod install inside your terminal, or from CocoaPods.app.

Alternatively to give it a test run, run the command:

pod try LazyKit

LazyKit 2.0

By
Kevin Malkic

LazyKit

LazyKit is a framework that allow you to write fast and easy views.
Constructing a view can be long, boring and repetitive, especialy after the n view built.

You can now use basic CSS files to style your elements.

Features

Maps UIView / UILabel / UIButton / UIImageView / UITextField / UITextView / UITableView / UICollectionView
Base classes for UIViewController / UIView / UITableViewCell / UICollectionViewCell
CSS parser / mapper (You’ll be even more lazy with that)
Swap CSS themes at runtime
Support for borders/radius in css

Features coming up

Supoort for text decorations in css

Requirements

iOS 8.0+
Xcode 7.2+

Installation

Embedded frameworks require a minimum deployment target of iOS 8.

Embedded Framework

Open up Terminal, cd into your top-level project directory, and run the following command “if” your project is not initialized as a git repository:

$ git init

Add LazyKit as a git submodule by running the following command:

$ git submodule add https://github.com/kmalkic/LazyKit.git

Open the new LazyKit folder, and drag the LazyKit.xcodeproj into the Project Navigator of your application’s Xcode project.

It should appear nested underneath your application’s blue project icon. Whether it is above or below all the other Xcode groups does not matter.
Select the LazyKit.xcodeproj in the Project Navigator and verify the deployment target matches that of your application target.
Next, select your application project in the Project Navigator (blue project icon) to navigate to the target configuration window and select the application target under the “Targets” heading in the sidebar.
In the tab bar at the top of that window, open the “General” panel.
Click on the + button under the “Embedded Binaries” section.
You will see two different LazyKit.xcodeproj folders each with two different versions of the LazyKit.framework nested inside a Products folder.

It does not matter which Products folder you choose from, but it does matter whether you choose the top or bottom LazyKit.framework.
And that’s it!

The LazyKit.framework is automagically added as a target dependency, linked framework and embedded framework in a copy files build phase which is all you need to build on the simulator and a device.

Usage

Create a simple view configurations

Can be a struct or a class. Let just add a label.

import LazyKit

struct MyConfigurations: LazyViewConfigurations {

    static func elementsOptions() -> [ElementOptions]? {
        return [
            LabelOptions(identifier: "title",
                classType: CustomLabel.self,
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: .blueColor()),
                textOptions: TextBaseOptions(text: "hello", font: .systemFontOfSize(20), textAlignment: .Center)),
        ]
    }
    //Will need some knowledges in visual format constraints
    static func visualFormatConstraintOptions() -> [VisualFormatConstraintOptions]? {
        return [
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-[title]-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "V:|-top-[title(==titleHeight)]")
        ]
    }

    static func visualFormatMetrics() -> [String: AnyObject]? {

        return ["top" : 30, "titleHeight" : 44]
    }
     //Can use this function to return the conventional way of using constraints
    static func layoutConstraints() -> [ConstraintOptions]? {
        return nil
    }
}

Using UIViewControllers

That is all you need.

import LazyKit

class MyViewController: LazyBaseViewController <MyConfigurations> {

}

Using UIView

That is all you need. Don’t mix LazyBaseViewController and having a view of type LazyBaseView in same time. First make no sense and second you’ll end up with duplicate views.

import LazyKit

class MyViewController: UIViewController {

    override func loadView() {

        view = MyView()
    }
}

class MyView: LazyBaseView <MyConfigurations> {

}

Create an advanced view configurations without CSS

import LazyKit

struct MyConfigurations: LazyViewConfigurations {

    static func elementsOptions() -> [ElementOptions]? {

        return [
            LabelOptions(identifier: "title",
                classType: CustomLabel.self,
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: .blueColor()),
                textOptions: TextBaseOptions(text: "hello", font: .systemFontOfSize(20), textAlignment: .Center)
            ),

            LabelOptions(identifier: "subtitle",
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: .greenColor()),
                textOptions: TextBaseOptions(text: "hey", textAlignment: .Center)
            ),

            ButtonOptions(identifier: "button",
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: .redColor()),
                textOptionsForType: [.Normal: TextBaseOptions(text: "button"), .Highlighted: TextBaseOptions(text: "highlighted")]
            ),

            ViewOptions(identifier: "line",
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: .lightGrayColor())
            ),

            ImageOptions(identifier: "photo",
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: .lightGrayColor()),
                imageBaseOptions: ImageBaseOptions(imageNamed: "image", contentMode: .ScaleAspectFill)
            ),

            TextFieldOptions(identifier: "textfield",
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: UIColor.orangeColor()),
                textOptions: TextBaseOptions(font: .systemFontOfSize(16), textAlignment: .Center),
                placeholderOptions: TextBaseOptions(text: "placeholder", font: .systemFontOfSize(16), textColor: .redColor(), textAlignment: .Center),
                textInputOptions: TextInputBaseOptions(autocapitalizationType: .Sentences, autocorrectionType: .No, spellCheckingType: .No, keyboardType: .NumbersAndPunctuation, keyboardAppearance: .Dark, returnKeyType: .Done, enablesReturnKeyAutomatically: true, secureTextEntry: false)
            ),

            TextViewOptions(identifier: "textview",
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: UIColor.cyanColor()),
                textOptions: TextBaseOptions(text: "TextView", font: .systemFontOfSize(14), textAlignment: .Left),
                textInputOptions: TextInputBaseOptions(autocapitalizationType: .Sentences, autocorrectionType: .No, spellCheckingType: .No, keyboardType: .EmailAddress, keyboardAppearance: .Dark, returnKeyType: .Done, enablesReturnKeyAutomatically: true, secureTextEntry: false)
            )
        ]
    }

    static func visualFormatConstraintOptions() -> [VisualFormatConstraintOptions]? {

        return [
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-[photo(==photoW)]-[title]-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:[subtitle(==title)]"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:[textfield(==title)]"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-40-[line]-40-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-[textview]-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-buttonLeft-[button]-buttonRight-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "V:|-top-[title]-[subtitle]-[textfield]", options: .AlignAllLeft),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "V:|-top-[photo(==photoH)]"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "V:[line(==1)]-[textview(==200)]-200-[button(==buttonH)]-8-|")
        ]
    }

    static func visualFormatMetrics() -> [String: AnyObject]? {

        return ["top" : 30, "buttonH" : 44, "buttonLeft" : 100, "buttonRight" : 100, "photoW" : 100, "photoH" : 60]
    }

    static func layoutConstraints() -> [ConstraintOptions]? {

        return [
            ConstraintOptions(identifier: "titleHeight", itemIdentifier: "title", attribute: .Height, relatedBy: .Equal, toItemIdentifier: nil, attribute: .Height, multiplier: 1, constant: 40)
        ]
    }
}

Here the result with no extra work to do :), but ugly colors.

Using CSS

CSS example

The styling is declared using a CSS-like syntax that also supports variables:

@global_bold_font_name: RobotoSlab-Bold;
@global_regular_font_name: RobotoSlab-Regular;
@titleColor: #ff0000;
@tintColor: #3e8fdb;
@bodyColor: #333333;

body {
    color: @bodyColor;
    font-family: @global_bold_font_name;
    placeholder-font-family: @global_bold_font_name;
}

#title {
    color: @titleColor;
    font-size: 14px;
    text-align:left;
    text-maxline: 2;
}

.subtitle {
    font-size: 12px;
    text-align:left;
    text-indent: 5px;
    text-decoration: underline;
    text-decoration-color: rgba(0,0,0,1);
}

#photo {
    background-image-content: scaleToFill;
}

.photo {
    background-image: myimage;
}

Here the list of available attributes:

******************************************************************
GENERAL KEYS:
  'background' 
  'background-color' 
  'tint-color' 
  'bartint-color' 
     Usage: #RBG | #ARGB | #RRGGBB | #AARRGGBB | rgb(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255)) | rgba(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255),alpha(0.0-1.0))
  'background-image' 
     Usage: image name, without ""
  'background-image-content' 
     Usage: scaleToFit | scaleToFill | center | top | left | bottom | right

TEXT KEYS:
  'color' 
     Usage: #RBG | #ARGB | #RRGGBB | #AARRGGBB | rgb(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255)) | rgba(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255),alpha(0.0-1.0))
  'font-family' 
     Usage: font name, without ""
  'font-size' 
     Usage: size in px
  'text-align' 
     Usage: left | center | right | justify
  'text-maxline' 
     Usage: number of lines max (integer)
  'line-height' 
     Usage: height in px
  'paragraph-spacing' 
     Usage: spacing in px
  'text-indent' 
     Usage: header in px. Used to indent first line of any new paragraph.
  'word-wrap' 
     Usage: word-wrapping | char-wrapping | clipping | truncating-head | truncating-tail | truncating-middle
  'text-stroke-color' 
     Usage: #RBG | #ARGB | #RRGGBB | #AARRGGBB | rgb(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255)) | rgba(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255),alpha(0.0-1.0))
  'text-stroke-width' 
     Usage: width in px
  'text-decoration' 
     Usage: none|underline|line-through
  'text-decoration-color' 
     Usage: #RBG | #ARGB | #RRGGBB | #AARRGGBB | rgb(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255)) | rgba(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255),alpha(0.0-1.0))

For placeholder styling
  'placeholder-' 
     Usage: You can add 'placeholder-' to any of the above text keys

DECORATIONS KEYS:
  'border' 
     Patterns: 
       - width color
  'border-color' 
     Usage: #RBG | #ARGB | #RRGGBB | #AARRGGBB | rgb(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255)) | rgba(red(0-255),green(0-255),blue(0-255),alpha(0.0-1.0))
  'border-width' 
     Patterns: 
       - width
  'border-radius' 
     Usage: radius in px

******************************************************************

For more flexibility It is possible to nest id and classes together such as:
Very similar to what you do in html, but limited to those.

#title.commonText {} //will apply this style to any element that as styleClass = "commonText" and styleId = "title"
#title.commonText.link {} //will apply this style to any element that as styleClass = "commonText link" and styleId = "title"
.commonText.link {} //will apply this style to any element that as styleClass = "commonText link"
UILabel.commonText.link {} //will apply this style to all UILabel that as styleClass = "commonText link"
UITextField {} //will apply this style to all UITextField

Initialise the CSS Style manager

If you prefer seperating css files, you can add it to the array.
You will notice that it is urls, so you can use http. :)

//Load style from bundle
let defaultUrls = [
    NSURL(fileURLWithPath: NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("default.css", ofType: nil)!)
]
LazyStyleSheetManager.shared.setDefaultStylesFromFileAtUrls(defaultUrls)

Theme swapping

Can load a different set of css files for a given collection name

let defaultUrls = [
    NSURL(fileURLWithPath: NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("default.css", ofType: nil)!)
]
LazyStyleSheetManager.shared.setDefaultStylesFromFileAtUrls(defaultUrls)

let alternativeUrls = [
    NSURL(fileURLWithPath: NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("alt.css", ofType: nil)!)
]
LazyStyleSheetManager.shared.setStylesFromFileAtUrls(alternativeUrls, collectionName: kAlternativeCollectionName)

Whenever you need you can swap by changing currentCollecionName to your other styles. This will trigger a notification under kUpdateStylesNotificationKey. It is automatic so no need to addObserver to it, unless for other purposes.

LazyStyleSheetManager.shared.currentCollectionName = kAlternativeCollectionName

CSS Style manager helper

To print out css attributes and options.

LazyStyleSheetManager.shared.help()

Create an advanced view configurations with CSS

Pretty much the same way as above, but simplier.

import LazyKit

struct MyConfigurations: LazyViewConfigurations {

    static func elementsOptions() -> [ElementOptions]? {
        return [
            LabelOptions(identifier: "title",
                text: "hello",
                styleId: "title"),

            LabelOptions(identifier: "subtitle",
                text: "hey",
                styleId: "subtitle"),

            ButtonOptions(identifier: "button",
                texts: [.Normal: "button", .Highlighted: "highlighted"],
                styleId: "button"),

            ViewOptions(identifier: "line",
                viewBaseOptions: ViewBaseOptions(backgroundColor: .lightGrayColor())),

            ImageOptions(identifier: "photo",
                styleId: "photo",
                styleClass: "photo"),

            TextFieldOptions(identifier: "textfield",
                placeholderText: "placeholder",
                styleId: "textfield",
                textInputOptions: TextInputBaseOptions(autocapitalizationType: .Sentences, autocorrectionType: .No, spellCheckingType: .No, keyboardType: .NumbersAndPunctuation, keyboardAppearance: .Dark, returnKeyType: .Done)),

            TextViewOptions(identifier: "textview",
                styleId: "textview",
                textInputOptions: TextInputBaseOptions(autocapitalizationType: .Sentences, autocorrectionType: .No, spellCheckingType: .No, keyboardType: .EmailAddress, keyboardAppearance: .Dark, returnKeyType: .Done)
            )
        ]
    }

    static func visualFormatConstraintOptions() -> [VisualFormatConstraintOptions]? {

        return [
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-[photo(==photoW)]-[title]-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:[subtitle(==title)]"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:[textfield(==title)]"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-40-[line]-40-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-[textview]-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "H:|-buttonLeft-[button]-buttonRight-|"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "V:|-top-[title]-[subtitle]-[textfield]", options: .AlignAllLeft),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "V:|-top-[photo(==photoH)]"),
            VisualFormatConstraintOptions(string: "V:[line(==1)]-[textview(==200)]-200-[button(==buttonH)]-8-|")
        ]
    }

    static func visualFormatMetrics() -> [String: AnyObject]? {

        return ["top" : 30, "buttonH" : 44, "buttonLeft" : 100, "buttonRight" : 100, "photoW" : 100, "photoH" : 60]
    }

    static func layoutConstraints() -> [ConstraintOptions]? {

        return [
            ConstraintOptions(identifier: "titleHeight", itemIdentifier: "title", attribute: .Height, relatedBy: .Equal, toItemIdentifier: nil, attribute: .Height, multiplier: 1, constant: 40)
        ]
    }
}

Access an element

Various way of doing it

viewManager.updateElement("title", elementOptions: LabelOptions(textOptions: TextBaseOptions(text: "Bonjour")))

viewManager.updateElement("title", type: UILabel.self) { (element) -> Void in

    element.text = "Bonjour"
}

if let title: UILabel = viewManager.element("title") {

    title.text = "Bonjour"
}

if let title = viewManager.label("title") {

    title.text = "Bonjour"
}

viewManager.label("title")!.text = "Bonjour"

Update an element with new options

You can update the element with any of the base options.
Note that the new option will replace only the non nil attributes.

viewManager.updateElement("title", elementOptions: LabelOptions(textOptions: TextBaseOptions(text: "Bonjour")))

Update an element with states, such as UIButton

viewManager.updateElement("button", elementOptions: ButtonOptions(textOptionsForType: [.Normal: TextBaseOptions(text: "Done"), .Highlighted: TextBaseOptions(text: "Highlighted")]))

Update a contraints constant

For this particular change, it is recommended to not use Visual format constraints because it does create an array of NSLayoutConstraints. Best is to create a constraint using this function:

static func layoutConstraints() -> [ConstraintOptions]? {
    return [
            ConstraintOptions(identifier: "titleHeight", itemIdentifier: "title", attribute: .Height, relatedBy: .Equal, toItemIdentifier: nil, attribute: .Height, multiplier: 1, constant: 40)
        ]

Now you will be able to target the specific constraint you want to change.

//This will make your title height to change from 40 to 120. Usefull if you want to expand/collapse an element.
viewManager.changeConstantOfLayoutConstaint("titleHeight", constant: 120)

LazyKit 2.0

LazyKit 2.0

LazyKit 2.0

LazyKit

Features

Features coming up

Requirements

Installation

Embedded Framework

Usage

Create a simple view configurations

Using UIViewControllers

Using UIView

Create an advanced view configurations without CSS

Using CSS

CSS example

Initialise the CSS Style manager

Theme swapping

CSS Style manager helper

Create an advanced view configurations with CSS

Access an element

Update an element with new options

Update an element with states, such as UIButton

Update a contraints constant

FAQ

Credits

License